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One thing of note in your posts is their mercurial nature. Which serves to reinforce my disinclination to reply to them. It seems you read §48 as bein...

Notice that despite this, it's not the case that just any words will do. You choose the words for your posts with great care.

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For example:

You appear to have not understood what was said. SO there's little point in saying more.

Yep. Easy to do when doubt becomes a fetish.

You appear to be unavailable for conversation. Cheers.

Would that this were true. While doubt (and certainty) are inherent aspects of our lives, turning doubt into a fetish is a sure way to set yourself up...

I understood that. The "He" of the first paragraph is Meta. My apologies for the confusion.

Well, there's a whole lot of other philosophical tools one might pull out, but folk keep asking questions for which Wittgenstein's approach is particu...

What do you think?

Take the analysis further. Doubt and certainty are propositional attitudes; they are ways of thinking about this or that statement. You doubt that the...

Wittgenstein again - On Certainty.

Cheers. I thought so, too. Pearls before swine, it seems. It comes back to the notion that philosophy consists in conceptual analysis. Working out wha...

SO you are claiming: that doubt is dependent on certainty says nothin about doubt. Hmm. That's a bit contrary. And you set up "absolute truth" by dist...

We almost got back to the topic; Srap is right in saying ...but this is oddly matched against a form of essentialism, where there is a determinate mea...

Can you doubt your death or your purpose in life without presuposing your life? Each act of doubt rests on something that is undoubted. That's part of...

Doubt is overrated. You can only doubt against an indubitable background. You might doubt anything, if you like, but you can't doubt everything.

Ask the Hebrewsians.

I didn't see an answer to this: What would change your mind?

Yep. You'd have to have lumps on your head.

Yeah, them. :wink: Seems as some folk think that phenomenology has something to say in regard to the OP - that maths is not made up. Issue here is con...

I think so. It's not good for your mental health, you know. You will find yourself writing long, convolute sentences that say very simple things. Yep,...

Thanks. I'll go along with the private language argument being a special case of a more general argument for rule-following not being a private activi...

Yes! Our utterances and acts are what constitute meaning, in so far as meaning is anything at all. And so of course that meaning is in a state of flux...

Yep. And pointless.

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Repeating terms used in the previous text. Lack of general knowledge. Pat statements that could fit in anywhere. Inverting statements to construct rep...

Is anyone else reading @"Average"'s replies reminded of Modbot? Or Eliza? (@"Tom Storm" pointed this out).

Not only recognizing similarity, difference, repetition and pattern, but use. hnece,

Yes! The edifice of evolutionary biology is built using the grammar of rationality. To use it to suggest that evolution undermines that very rationali...

Cheers. I think this subitising discussion is off-topic; it might seem to some that how we recognise numbers is central to what numbers are, but it is...

Here's the thing: our not talking about something does not make it disappear. When you put the spoons back in the draw, they do not cease to exist. Yo...

Thanks again. In a previous life I taught teachers and parents the importance of subitising. The thinking at the time was based on studies in which it...

I don't think we are.

Cheers. Just thought you might be interested, it being your area. Complexity increasing with yet another loop. Which in my ignorant head harmonises wi...

Yes; I'm well aware of such studies. Hence my note above, in which I made it clear that I think pattern recognition has a part to play. But it is not ...

Scans appear to show the brain area used in subitizing is the same as used for counting, not for recognising patterns; it's not settled, but it's not ...

Meh. There's plenty of academic research out there on the topic. It's an ongoing debate of some pedagogic import. At the very most, it is a combinatio...

If that were so then the position of the dots would make a difference. It doesn't. Subitising is more than just pattern recognition, although that is ...

A Flat Earth? A physicist who built a model of one flat-earth description so you can see for yourself why it doesn't work: Try it. The article points ...

It'd be difficult to maintain both the world is amoral and that the world is immoral. One or the other. Not both.

...but not equitable. Seems to me this argument is based on word-play.

All that, and yet there is a door. That is, what exactly is added by the phenomenological analysis? Why wouldn't it 'drop out', like a boxed beetle?

But here: https://www.media4math.com/sites/default/files/library_asset/images/MathClipArt--Single-Die-with-4-Showing.png At about age four or five a c...

I think we are in agreement, right up until: I might read this in either of two ways. Perhaps as the tautology that if we do not talk about it, then i...

Of course. And it's muddle-headed.

The metaphysics is old stuff, with all the flaws of idealism, so I'll leave it aside. Let's focus on "Change my mind". You'll believe whatever you wan...

A good reply. The simulation ceases to be a simulation, dropping out of consideration. Notice that this is a piece of conceptual analysis? Clarifying ...

In an attempt to put the thread back on track, I'll go back tot he spoons argument. There are five spoons on the table. How could any paradox, any alt...